I was never much of a believer in Utopian societies. It seemed that most Utopian societies presented in literature were based on the idea of everyone having everything they needed without any protection or encouragement for private property and rights. Clearly this is not the case.
Take the case of the Pilgrims in America. They were communal the first couple years they were here. The farming done on individual lands went into a big pile in the center of town. Great! Everyone was permitted to take what they needed to survive. Then the secret got out there was no point in getting up early to tend to crops...the food was produced by the "center of town." Predictably the food stores dried up and famine loomed.
When the "government" of the Pilgrims changed their policy to "You Farm it, You eat it." It was a glorious example of property rights and how capitalism propels one's standard of living. The people that were good at farming (farmed a surplus) could now sell their excess to others. The others that needed food, because they couldn't or wouldn't farm, now needed to learn a trade, a craft, or provide some other service for food.
This created a division of labor, where a farmer would trade food for wood. He didn't have the time to cut down a tree, or might not be physically strong enough to do so...and besides he had to farm, so why not trade services and both benefit.
The motive behind this site is to divide up the discussions of liberty and enable us to trade stories and observations. I might not know what caused the depression of 1830, or why the Cod stocks were depleted up in Canada, but I guarantee someone might. I'm willing to bet it isn't the story I've heard in school about the greedy capitalists against a weak government. So come find other opinions...and yes, we occasionally will put facts and actual logic behind presentation.